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In this paper, we study triply periodic surfaces with minimal surface area under a constraint in the volume fraction of the regions (phases) that the surface separates. Using a variational level set method formulation, we present a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Youngjean Jung , Kevin T. Chu , Salvatore Torquato

This is the second in a series of papers that construct minimal surfaces by gluing singly periodic Karcher--Scherk saddle towers along their wings. This paper aims to construct singly periodic minimal surfaces with Scherk ends. As in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Hao Chen

We study nonlocal minimal surfaces as a new approximation theory for the area functional, and more specifically in the context of Yau's conjecture on the existence of minimal surfaces in closed three-dimensional manifolds. This programme…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Enric Florit-Simon

We study compact stable embedded minimal surfaces whose boundary is given by two collections of closed smooth Jordan curves in close planes of Euclidean 3-space. Our main result is a classification of these minimal surfaces, under certain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rosanna Pearlstein

In this paper we survey with complete proofs some well--known, but hard to find, results about constructing closed embedded minimal surfaces in a closed 3-dimensional manifold via min--max arguments. This includes results of J. Pitts, F.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias H. Colding , Camillo De Lellis

In 1970, Lawson solved the topological realization problem for minimal surfaces in the sphere, showing that any closed orientable surface can be minimally embedded in $\mathbb{S}^3$. The analogous problem for surfaces with boundary was…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Mikhail Karpukhin , Robert Kusner , Peter McGrath , Daniel Stern

In this paper we have proved several approximation theorems for the family of minimal surfaces in R^3 that imply, among other things, that complete minimal surfaces are dense in the space of all minimal surfaces endowed with the topology of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Alarcon , L. Ferrer , F. Martin

In this survey, we discuss various aspects of the minimal surface equation in the three-sphere S^3. After recalling the basic definitions, we describe a family of immersed minimal tori with rotational symmetry. We then review the known…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-29 S. Brendle

We introduce a square tiling/tetragonal strip representation to the P, D, and G triply periodic minimal surfaces. This approach is useful in identifying mixtures and grain boundaries of these surfaces that might be useful for material…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-20 Chern Chuang , Bih-Yaw Jin

Let $\mathbb{M}^{2}$ be a complete non compact orientable surface of non negative curvature. We prove in this paper some theorems involving parabolicity of minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{M}^{2}\times\mathbb{R}$. First, using a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-22 Vanderson Lima

We construct geometric barriers for minimal graphs in H^n xR. We prove the existence and uniqueness of a solution of the vertical minimal equation in the interior of a convex polyhedron in H^n extending continuously to the interior of each…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-15 Ricardo Sá Earp , Eric Toubiana

It is known that any periodic map of order $n$ on a closed oriented surface of genus $g$ can be equivariantly embedded into $S^m$ for some $m$. In the orientable and smooth category, we determine the smallest possible $m$ when $n\geq 3g$.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Chao Wang , Shicheng Wang , Zhongzi Wang

There exists a properly embedded minimal surface of genus one with one end. The end is asymptotic to the end of the helicoid. This genus one helicoid is constructed as the limit of a continuous one-parameter family of screw-motion invariant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Matthias Weber , David Hoffman , Michael Wolf

Motivated by classical theorems on minimal surface theory in compact hyperbolic three-manifolds, we investigate the questions of existence and deformations for least area minimal surfaces in complete noncompact hyperbolic three-manifold of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Zheng Huang , Biao Wang

A Euclidean minimal torus with planar ends gives rise to an immersed Willmore torus in the conformal 3--sphere $S^3=\R^3\cup \{\infty\}$. The class of Willmore tori obtained this way is given a spectral theoretic characterization as the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-18 Christoph Bohle , Iskander A. Taimanov

In this paper, continuing our previous work, we investigate the third gap problem in the Simon conjecture for closed minimal surfaces in the unit sphere. By developing refined third-order Simons-type integral identities and establishing new…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Weiran Ding , Jianquan Ge , Fagui Li

Triple periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) have garnered significant interest due to their structural efficiency and controllable geometry, making them suitable for a wide range of applications. This paper investigates the relationships…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-28 Sergei Ermolenko , Pavel Snopov

We construct a complete, embedded minimal surface in euclidean 3-space which has unbounded Gaussian curvature. It has infinite genus, infinitely many catenoidal type ends and one limit end.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-18 Martin Traizet

In this note we propose a min-max theory for embedded hypersurfaces with a fixed boundary and apply it to prove several theorems about the existence of embedded minimal hypersurfaces with a given boundary. A simpler variant of these…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-19 Camillo De Lellis , Jusuf Ramic

In 2004, Taubes introduced the space of minimal hyperbolic germs with elements consisting of the first and second fundamental form of an equivariant immersed minimal disk in hyperbolic 3-space. Herein, we initiate a further study of this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-13 Andrew Sanders